Fifth Edition Keeper's Kit
Details
Publisher: Chaosium
Product Code: 5110
Publishing Year: 1992
Pages: Multiple components
Cover Price: $##.##
Author(s): Les Brooks, William Dunn, John McEwan, Lynn Willis, Keith Herber, John B. Monroe
Artist(s): Tom Kalichack
Setting(s): Scenario is 1920s
Format(s): Multiple components including cardboard screen, loose papers and a booklet; also available as PDF
ISBN: ISBN 0-933635-96-6
Contents
This is a bundle of a Keeper's screen, novelty items and other assorted paraphernalia.
Included in the package is:
- Keeper's Screen,
- Sample Fire-Arms and Explosives card-sheet,
- Keeper's Bookmark,
- Selected Beasts & Monsters,
- Automobile Chases,
- Human Hit Locations (optional),
- Strange High House in the Mist (cardboard model),
- Half-Page Investigator Sheets,
- Supporting Character Sheets,
- New Scenario: The Little People
Scenarios: The Little People
Front Cover Text
Sanity Saving Keeper's Screen
PLUS these play-aids
- A New Lovecraft Country Adventure
- Beast & Monster Summary
- Automobile Chase Rules
- Supporting Character Sheets
- Scale Model of The Strange High House in the Mist
Back Cover Text
This kit contains the ALL NEW 8½" x 40" colorful four panel Keeper’s Screen featuring an additional 8½x11" panel of firearms and explosives — completely redesigned for instant access to important spot-rules, tables, and reminders from the Call of Cthulhu game.
Also included in this packet are these other valuable play-aids of use to players and keepers:
- A new "Lovecraft Country" Adventure, The Little People set in fabled Arkham, Massachusetts, was specially written for this package, and is suitable for both beginning and experienced players.
- A Keeper's Bookmark with a quick index to most important rules topics. Designed specifically for use with the 5th edition Call of Cthulhu rulesbook.
- A set of useful rules and tables including: Selected Beasts & Monsters, a new condensed listing of several types of creatures commonly encountered in a game. Automobile Chase rules are provided for staging classic car chase scenes with associated combat. Human Hit Locations is a reference which allows more detailed combat and injury results.
- Two new types of investigator Sheets; Half-Page Character Sheets are provided for convenience when a full character sheet is unnecesary. Supporting Character Sheets are compact and useful for incidental or short term investigators.
- A scale model of The Strange High House in the Mist, sturdy cardboard model kit with assembly instructions included.
Comments / Trivia
Several years earlier, Chaosium produced a similar package, 1920s Keeper's Kit, which likewise brought together a Keeper's Screen, a specially-written scenario and an assortment of novelties.
Unlike the earlier release, this item contains elements which have to-date never been reprinted in other releases
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